> If you find an idea that you think is both valuable to the company and interesting to you, you can just drop everything to work on it.
What.
How is an engineer deciding what to work on like this, even at a small startup?!
What.
How is an engineer deciding what to work on like this, even at a small startup?!
In fact, many of the best engineers are profoundly bad at figuring out what to work on.
Engineers should do engineering things at startups because nobody else can.
If you have a nonfounder engineer, that person for sure shouldn’t just be doing whatever it is they feel like doing. They need to allow the founders to drive.
The comment is wrong, both in theory and in practice.
The whole point is the founders have the eye, not as much so the engineers.